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Beat the Streak Report: Weekend, May 13-15

Happy Hollidays to the 17.4 percent of you who rolled with Cardinals outfielder Matt last night, as he victimized Cubs starter Casey Coleman for a second-inning long ball and then added a single off reliever Justin Berg for good measure.

You know, just in case our system didn’t register the dinger or something. Don’t worry, Matt, we’re on top of it. Spread those knocks out and you’ll make a lot of friends around here.

Current leader thesantos2006 opted for Holliday’s teammate Albert Pujols, and received a sixth-inning single to push his streak to 28 games.

Best of luck to you over the weekend, Mr. Santos — or is it Mr. Thesantos? You’re one day from crossing over the halfway mark to $5.6 million and just two correct selections from tying our season leader. Oh, and one incorrect pick from winning absolutely nothing. No pressure, though.

Friday bonus video: Hey look, it’s that guy who wrote the BTS Report last year!

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Weekends in BTS are rarely fruitful for the masses; just seems to work out that way. The number of 20+ streakers has grown considerably since last weekend. We have 64 entering today trying to get to or stay at 20+.
For the entire weekend, there are 126 streakers that are at 17+ games right now. Some of those 17-gamers will be at 20 come Monday morning. Of those 126 potentials, how many will start the new week out as 20+ gamers? That result will give you and indication of the relative fruitfulness of the weekend.

——————————————–Highest “No Selection” :P pg# 4 with streak of 18 back to zero.
Yesterday’s Top2500 Reset rate was 16.79% with VLADDY reseting the most.
There was also 23.94% PPD due to players not playing OR rain, These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.

:) What? Bautista is batting less than 200 against himself? How is that possible? I’d think he should know what’s being thrown! I didn’t even know he was also a Blue Jays starter. A typo obviously on Dave’s part in the “you’ll thank me later section” for Friday. Bautista is facing Pavano today.

Cano just got hit by a pitch. :(:(:( This is two straight days that my pick has been hit by a pitch in their last plate appearance ending my last chance at a hit and of course my hitting power which was luke warm in the first place has gone out with 3 straight O fers. I have not had a 2 hits or more game since April 30. :(:(:(

——————————————–Highest “No Selection” :P pg# 8 with streak of 16 back to zero.
Yesterday’s Top2500 Reset rate was 20.28% with ROBBIE CANO reseting the most.
There was also 7.16% PPD due to players not playing ,These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.

You still have a couple hours before games lock. Re-check weather forecasts. There are some good picks today. I agree with not risking if you are absolutely uncomfortable. My recent rule I set for myself is research 2 picks. If both look to not be playing for whatever reason, abort vs. trusting a coin flip pick.

For me, it doesn’t really matter. Though I like Votto’s & Holliday’s #s in this game, too many variables… Rain, winner takes 1st place in division, manager intervention on pitch selection, animosity btwn teams, and pitchers focusing harder. I will gladly pick in a game without all that drama.

@Champ88. Hopefully your no-pick doesn’t backfire on you. Per the game preview, Lind expects to be in lineup tomorrow. If that’s true, it is possible he pinches today if needed; he is not scratched from the lineup & is on the bench. You may want to follow that game?

Well the quote said, “All I can say is not right now” and that quote was from late last night, so I figured there was no possible way he could play today.

I see a couple of my thoughts came through: Paul Konerko and Alberto Callaspo, but there were a LOT of picks today I was considering that failed, so the success rate was FAR under even league average, so I think I made the right choice.

Usually when making a pick, I go through everything before I fully decide on it and see if I can give myself a good “excuse” as to why I used that pick and I could not do that for Konerko with all the walks he gets.

I’d say you’re right. With the rain outs, about 25% of Top2500 sat idle today for that reason, leaving a little less than 75% playing (some picked DLs). As of right now, 3 games still remaining, we have just over 30% of entire Top2500 reset. That breaks down to over 40%-reset of those that did not sit idle.

BTS gods demanded sacrifice today and lots of it. As mentioned earlier, about 75% of the Top2500 played while 25% rained out. By my estimates (give or take 2%), there was a 55% reset among those 75% that played. That’s huge, a leader board cleansing event. Needed a streak of 9 to get on the Top2500 this morning, that’ll drop!

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